Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration

by Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Editor), Avishai Margalit (Editor)

Overview

Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration gathers tributes, reflections, and commentaries on the great thinker and his philosophy, politics, and life-including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Spender, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226840970
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	11/01/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Edna Ullmann-Margalit is an associate professor of education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Avishai Margalit is the Shulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Morgenbesser/Lieberson - Isaiah Berlin
2. David Pears - Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
3. Charles Taylor - The Importance of Herder
4. Richard Wollheim - The Idea of a Common Human Nature
5. Leon Wieseltier - Two Concepts of Secularism
6. Ronald Dworkin - Two Concepts of Liberty
7. G. A. Cohen - Isaiah's Marx, and Mine
8. Stuart Hampshire - Nationalism
9. Michael Ignatieff - Understanding Fascism?
10. Yael Tamir - Whose History? What Ideas?
11. Stephen Spender - Six Variations
12. Francis Haskell - A Puzzle about Italian Art
13. Bernard Williams - Naive and Sentimental Opera Lovers
14. Alfred Brendel - Does Classical Music Have to be Entirely Serious?
15. Joseph Brodsky - Isaiah Berlin: A Tribute
Notes
Index